Could Apple demand a change? Besides, while the iPod is an incredible machine (calling it a "music player" really does it an injustice) there are other players, PDAs and soon cell phones that can handle "podcasts". I've seen "shiftcasting" and "peercasting" but I'm sure there are better suggestions.
BTW, someone this year filed a trademark claim on "PODCAST", something that I'm sure will get disputed by someone.
I just think there has to be a better name out there.
From a business perspective this is genius. Content costs nothing because it's created by users and everything they make is pure profit.
I agree about the possiblity of being very profitable but what about commercials? The station needs to broadcast them:
1. Will they just slice out content and insert commercials? If so, who decides what gets cut?
2. Will they require producers to adhere to standard breaks and limit content time to something like 22:30 minutes per half hour with 3 breaks?
3. Could the broadcaster insert an ad for a bbq shack during a pro PETA show (unlikely, but could happen)? Will the producer be allowed to insert their own ads?
4. If the podcaster says one of the "seven dirty words" and it's gets broadcast couldn't the producer get hit with law suit from an injured third party (like an advertiser)?
Yes, there could be a lot of profit in it but IMO it will be a rocky road in the beginning. While some podcasters will adapt I hope that's the exception to the rule. I like podcasts the way they are.
Of course, it will probably end up being just as crappy as local public access channels. Except, instead of seeing teenagers prank call McDonald's it'll be wannabe Art Bells ranting about how George W. Bush is hiding Osama bin Laden on the dark side of the moon.
If that part was posted by alone it would get a +5, Funny. =)
The only thing missing from that rant were various threats against the UN and ending it off with "Screw Flanders, Screw Flanders, Screw Flanders." Is he off his meds again?
Someone tell peckerhead to go get a copy of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and see how incredibly good a video game can be. It's not the gaming industry that's going to lose ground, it's the film industry.
I can't believe neither service rents porn movies.
Porn is the cash cow of the video rental industry. While it might take up 10% of the floor space it makes more than half the profit.
Forget Blockbuster renting porn. IMO it won't happen unless they get bought out. Rumor has it the Mormon church owns a chunk of them but I have no idea if that's true or not.
As for Netflix though I could see them moving into it if things get difficult. Think of it as their "nuclear option". While they'll catch crap from the Radical Right and Jesus Freaks it all comes down to staying in business. I suspect the porn industry would help them out. They'd be a very powerful friend with mighty deep pockets.
If I was Netflix I'd move into porn before losing too much business to the newcomers.
Wiley, publisher of the popular Dummies series of books, as well as the Bible series, is quite surprised, due to the fact that they view the book to show Jobs in a largely positive light.
The key word here is "largely". Anything short of "Messiah" is unacceptable. It's a well known fact that the standard Apple employee contact requires new hires to worship Steve and agree to "put no other gods before me".
Wiles' proof was a round about proof, it was in his words not very nice.
Yeah, I know he never thought it was great but I wonder how much pressure he felt to find Fermat's proof and not just one that worked. (As I'm sure you know) rumor had it Fermat solved it in a single page book margin, something that seems rather suspect leaving open the idea Fermat actually never correctly solved it.
I'm interested to see how Khare uses Taniyama-Shimura. Could FLT ever be proven without it?
There are basically no "checks and balances" for Police departments in the US, unlike almost every other government function. They steal, lie, sell illegal drugs and kill for personal gain and pleasure while making +$70K per year in salary and "duty play" to sleep in their cruisers. Orwell said it best:
For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
[...]
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Police are the pigs of our society. They rule unjustly, refuse to allow anyone outside of the law enforcement community to review their actions and most people are too afraid to speak up against their injustices for fear of reprisals.
Esteban Carpio and Abner Louima got to see police revenge in action. No trial, just beaten within an inch of their lives. With Abner Louima the NYC Police department repeatedly raped his by jambing a toilet plunger in his anus while yelling "Take this, nigger". And these are the ones that lived.
I'm sorry, but the police are a cancer on society. And before anyone says I don't understand I was once a LEO assigned to the US Marshall's Office for three years (among other duties). Most cops are nothing more than stupid animals that couldn't think for themselves if they're life depended on it. While there are many exceptions including some excellent police officers, it is clearly not the norm.
Remember this: next time you get pulled over remember who has their hand on a service issued firearm and who is unarmed. Does it make you feel a little scared? If there's a disagreement are they going to believe you or the cop?
Check out the moive "The Thin Blue Line" (1988). It's about how the police framed Randall Dale Adams for the murder of a police officer. He's was weeks from execution before the truth can out and freed.
Many cops carry "throwaway pieces", handguns and knifes that can't be traced back to them so if they kill someone they have an excuse. Back in the '80s I spent some time riding with the Washington DC PD and reported to an officer shooting a suspect. The officer claimed the suspect (now quite dead) had a knife. An Inspector came out, didn't see a knife and said he'd back in five minutes. When he returned there were now four knifes under the body. It seems a few "people" grabbed their throwaway knifes and kicked it under the body without checking to see if someone else had already done it. The Inspecter saw the knifes and closed the case as a justifed shooting. Maybe it would've been different if the kid (16 years old) wasn't black and didn't live in public housing.
My best friend's sister and her partner have been together for 20 years now. They're well adjusted and fincially well off, achived through a lot of hard work. Since they live in the great state of MA they are now legally married.
There is no scientific reason not to allow them to adopt and be foster parents. Too many good homes that could really help out a difficult problem if it wasn't for a small group of christain bigots.
I see no evidence of gay bashing on Bush's part.
He wants to admend the US Constituion, a document that protects rights and use it to restrict them. That's bashing them in my book, just with nicer words.
Someone please answer this question: without bringing in an unseen "high power" can you still say same sex couples should not be married? Imposing a religous doctine on a minority ("Gays are sinner and evil") is not what our Founder Father had in mind.
Let them marry so they can see wild ride of marriage is like.
IMO they'd make
So this means the Coast Guard won't save their ass?
All kidding aside the USCG would respond to their distress call. They couldn't board the vessel without permission of the ship's captain or an agent of the country in which they're registered (most likely Liberia or Panama which means they'll never get their permission). International waters for many vessels is pretty much a "free for all".
If SeaCode is successful I could see a lot more companies doing the same thing. As for "living at sea" on an old cruise ship, it could easily turn into a nightmare very quickly. The rats and mold alone would make life miserable. Also ships registered in Liberia or Panama (the two most common) are subject to very, very few safety regulations. I've boarded more than a few "Liberian pig ships" when I was in the USCG and personally couldn't believe how bad some of them were. BTW, this is nothing against or any reflection on the people of Liberia since these ships very rarely visit their declared home port. To ship owners it's all about "deregulation" and little to no taxes.
A few years back these two got together and came up with the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act (MAPA). While the authors claimed that the main purpose of the act was to stop online discussions about making methamphetamine in reality it would've gone much further. It would've:
Made it illegal for medical doctors and researchers to discuss the use of medications for "off label" use. Many medical doctors will prescribe non over the counter antihistamines to their patients as a sleep aid. If MAPA had passed these MDs could've been jailed for this. Researchers often look at approved prescription medications to see if they can help people in other ways. A few years ago there was talk about some NSAIDs (Non Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) might be useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Researchers would have faced prison sentences for the act of discussing this in an email sent over the Internet.
The discussion of any device that could be used as drug paraphernalia would be illegal. Many US citizens that have their roots from the Middle East still use a hookah for smoking tobacco. Uttering the statement "please don't use a hookah for smoking marijuana" could land them in prison.
Hatch and Feinstein are both evil control freaks. To me to proves the system is broken with both the Democrats and Republicans. They both suck.
While this is very true in the retail world I work for a memory wholesale shop and we just ship out a replacement the same day we get a complaint. When the stick(s) in question come in we either test it with Memtest86 or one of our testers. 80% of the time it checks out just fine and we remark it as refurbished. It either gets used for exchanges or sold used. We maybe get less than 2% of our refurbed stuff returned in which we can either return the name brand stuff for a partial refund or, and much more common, toss that stick in the trash.
If we did a RMA-retail-style model with our customers they'd leave us in a heartbeat.
While this model works for us on the wholesale end I don't see it in use anywhere on the retail, mail order side. We use to do a little retail but dumped it because it just wasn't worth it.
BTW, the memory game is tough. We check our supply prices and currency exchange rates a few times a day. With such thin margins one mistake can easily cost you a week's worth of profit. Between a very low defect rate of memory sticks and razor thin profit margins no one in the business would be a bit surprised that some manufacturers skip testing.
Starting with Windows 2003, Microsoft now licenses Terminal Services separately. You get 0 license credit for having XP, even XP Pro. Previously, under Windows 2000 Terminal Services any 2000 Pro client gets granted a license from a free unlimited pool.
That sucks big time. When I upgraded our offices from Win98 to WinXP Pro* one of the big selling points was that we didn't need to buy TS CALs (at $150USD per seat). It was much cheaper to get XP Pro than XP Home and TS CALs. Most of our machines needed access to TS to access an accounting program at the head office. Also many of the users liked easy of use and speed of remote access to their work machines. TS one of the few things that have come out of Redmond that I've liked.
Needless to say I won't be upgrading to Win 2003 Server anytime soon.
I've been faced with either:
Going to Win 2003 Server and keeping the current accounting software system (which cost $20k upfront and $2k per year in maintance). Most people in the offices would prefer this option since it's the one they're use to.
GNU/Linux everywhere (both thin and thick as needed) and a web based accounting program our accountant has been pushing (for about $4k per year). Since it's a new interface many users have resisted a possible change.
While the latter had a marginal lead this news makes our choice a little easier. We're tired of MS "nickle and diming" us every chance they get. My boss has no problem paying for software, he's just sick of paying and paying and paying. What happens when MS changes the rules again and maybe says that you need to buy a new TS CAL every year? IMO many anti-MS people wouldn't hate them so much if they weren't so greedy.
There's a reason Bill Gates is the richest man in the world...
* Not by my choice but if the boss says you're a MS shop then you either play the game or leave.
Easy access to Xgrid is a bigger deal IMO than most people realize. Think about it, in a nice size office setup if you have 200 G5 PowerMacs you also have free access to a 200 G5 node cluster at night. Adding in Xgrid to the base distro and prefs panel makes sense. Once someone writes a Realbasic interface to Xgrid you could really see it's use grow. I also see to possibility of companies leasing out this clustering time to others that need access to this kind of processing power. Considering most office Macs sit idle at night Xgrid could turn into free money.
While there are a number of different clustering tools for MS Windows IFAIK MS doesn't have a standardized version distributed with XP. The parent posting is right in pointing this out.
SCO Corporation of Lindon, Utah (formerly Caldera) has lately taken to an extortion campaign of demanding license fees from Linux users for code that they themselves knowingly distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. They have also refused to accept the GPL, claiming that some preposterous theory of theirs makes it invalid (and even unconstitutional)! Meanwhile they have distributed GPL-licensed Nmap in (at least) their "Supplemental Open Source CD". In response to these blatant violations, and in accordance with section 4 of the GPL, we hereby terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of Nmap in any of their products, including (without limitation) OpenLinux, Skunkware, OpenServer, and UNIXWare. We have also stopped supporting the OpenServer and UNIXWare platforms.
Americans who crossed freely into Canada will be unable to return to the United States [from Canada] without a passport.
Shut out from the US and stuck in Canada? I fail to see the downside here. I mean between the high quality beer and weed plus "Hockey Night in Canada" and "The Nature of Things" I'm thinking about retiring there. =)
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Back in the late '80s I was asked by a NFP group to catalog their collection, about 6k of rare books dating back to the 1500's but most from the 1700 to 1900 and scan some of their more interesting ones.
As a rule on such jobs I always required a staff member with me at all times and required that my bags (computer, scanner, etc) be inspected at the entrance and the exit. True CYA. The first day I went to inspect the collection it was clear it had been "groomed". Telltall dust lines in drawers that should not have had been openned in years lead to the possiblity many books were missing. I quickly told them I had no interest in stepping into their mess and advised them to call the Boston PD right way.
My guess was someone was grabbing what look valuable and didn't know how to cover their tracks. It was also likely that person was still there.
The sad thing was there were a number of books I would've looked to have copies of, but it never happened.
Atleast some places, like the BLP, has very good security of the rare books. Once you get known as a researcher their they were pretty cool. Still strick, but still cool. Of course this was before the BPL was gutted. I fear in ten years it will a Starbuck's and Border's.
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BTW, someone this year filed a trademark claim on "PODCAST", something that I'm sure will get disputed by someone.
I just think there has to be a better name out there.
I agree about the possiblity of being very profitable but what about commercials? The station needs to broadcast them:
1. Will they just slice out content and insert commercials? If so, who decides what gets cut?
2. Will they require producers to adhere to standard breaks and limit content time to something like 22:30 minutes per half hour with 3 breaks?
3. Could the broadcaster insert an ad for a bbq shack during a pro PETA show (unlikely, but could happen)? Will the producer be allowed to insert their own ads?
4. If the podcaster says one of the "seven dirty words" and it's gets broadcast couldn't the producer get hit with law suit from an injured third party (like an advertiser)?
Yes, there could be a lot of profit in it but IMO it will be a rocky road in the beginning. While some podcasters will adapt I hope that's the exception to the rule. I like podcasts the way they are.
Of course, it will probably end up being just as crappy as local public access channels. Except, instead of seeing teenagers prank call McDonald's it'll be wannabe Art Bells ranting about how George W. Bush is hiding Osama bin Laden on the dark side of the moon.
If that part was posted by alone it would get a +5, Funny. =)
There is nothing unhackable.
Someone tell peckerhead to go get a copy of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and see how incredibly good a video game can be. It's not the gaming industry that's going to lose ground, it's the film industry.
Porn is the cash cow of the video rental industry. While it might take up 10% of the floor space it makes more than half the profit.
Forget Blockbuster renting porn. IMO it won't happen unless they get bought out. Rumor has it the Mormon church owns a chunk of them but I have no idea if that's true or not.
As for Netflix though I could see them moving into it if things get difficult. Think of it as their "nuclear option". While they'll catch crap from the Radical Right and Jesus Freaks it all comes down to staying in business. I suspect the porn industry would help them out. They'd be a very powerful friend with mighty deep pockets.
If I was Netflix I'd move into porn before losing too much business to the newcomers.
Our's banned comments because he said it made the executable bigger. Not a problem since the project never shipped. =)
The key word here is "largely". Anything short of "Messiah" is unacceptable. It's a well known fact that the standard Apple employee contact requires new hires to worship Steve and agree to "put no other gods before me".
Yeah, but finding it in some ways has turned into the search for the holy grail. The discoverer becomes a mathematics god.
Yeah, I know he never thought it was great but I wonder how much pressure he felt to find Fermat's proof and not just one that worked. (As I'm sure you know) rumor had it Fermat solved it in a single page book margin, something that seems rather suspect leaving open the idea Fermat actually never correctly solved it.
I'm interested to see how Khare uses Taniyama-Shimura. Could FLT ever be proven without it?
Great reply 2nd_coming. Thanks again.
Besides neither one is what Fermat claimed to be his [never/loss documented] answer.
Well, I was going to say tequila instead of Plutonium but same thing.
Esteban Carpio and Abner Louima got to see police revenge in action. No trial, just beaten within an inch of their lives. With Abner Louima the NYC Police department repeatedly raped his by jambing a toilet plunger in his anus while yelling "Take this, nigger". And these are the ones that lived.
I'm sorry, but the police are a cancer on society. And before anyone says I don't understand I was once a LEO assigned to the US Marshall's Office for three years (among other duties). Most cops are nothing more than stupid animals that couldn't think for themselves if they're life depended on it. While there are many exceptions including some excellent police officers, it is clearly not the norm.
Remember this: next time you get pulled over remember who has their hand on a service issued firearm and who is unarmed. Does it make you feel a little scared? If there's a disagreement are they going to believe you or the cop?
Check out the moive "The Thin Blue Line" (1988). It's about how the police framed Randall Dale Adams for the murder of a police officer. He's was weeks from execution before the truth can out and freed.
Many cops carry "throwaway pieces", handguns and knifes that can't be traced back to them so if they kill someone they have an excuse. Back in the '80s I spent some time riding with the Washington DC PD and reported to an officer shooting a suspect. The officer claimed the suspect (now quite dead) had a knife. An Inspector came out, didn't see a knife and said he'd back in five minutes. When he returned there were now four knifes under the body. It seems a few "people" grabbed their throwaway knifes and kicked it under the body without checking to see if someone else had already done it. The Inspecter saw the knifes and closed the case as a justifed shooting. Maybe it would've been different if the kid (16 years old) wasn't black and didn't live in public housing.
Welcome to Amerika.
Abner Louima: NYC officer arrested in alleged sexual attack on suspect
Esteban Carpio: No bail for suspect in detective's shooting
Like the current system is so great? See: Grand jury said to probe death of boy [in State foster care].
My best friend's sister and her partner have been together for 20 years now. They're well adjusted and fincially well off, achived through a lot of hard work. Since they live in the great state of MA they are now legally married.
There is no scientific reason not to allow them to adopt and be foster parents. Too many good homes that could really help out a difficult problem if it wasn't for a small group of christain bigots.
I see no evidence of gay bashing on Bush's part.
He wants to admend the US Constituion, a document that protects rights and use it to restrict them. That's bashing them in my book, just with nicer words.
Someone please answer this question: without bringing in an unseen "high power" can you still say same sex couples should not be married? Imposing a religous doctine on a minority ("Gays are sinner and evil") is not what our Founder Father had in mind.
Let them marry so they can see wild ride of marriage is like. IMO they'd make
All kidding aside the USCG would respond to their distress call. They couldn't board the vessel without permission of the ship's captain or an agent of the country in which they're registered (most likely Liberia or Panama which means they'll never get their permission). International waters for many vessels is pretty much a "free for all".
If SeaCode is successful I could see a lot more companies doing the same thing. As for "living at sea" on an old cruise ship, it could easily turn into a nightmare very quickly. The rats and mold alone would make life miserable. Also ships registered in Liberia or Panama (the two most common) are subject to very, very few safety regulations. I've boarded more than a few "Liberian pig ships" when I was in the USCG and personally couldn't believe how bad some of them were. BTW, this is nothing against or any reflection on the people of Liberia since these ships very rarely visit their declared home port. To ship owners it's all about "deregulation" and little to no taxes.
Made it illegal for medical doctors and researchers to discuss the use of medications for "off label" use. Many medical doctors will prescribe non over the counter antihistamines to their patients as a sleep aid. If MAPA had passed these MDs could've been jailed for this. Researchers often look at approved prescription medications to see if they can help people in other ways. A few years ago there was talk about some NSAIDs (Non Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) might be useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Researchers would have faced prison sentences for the act of discussing this in an email sent over the Internet.
The discussion of any device that could be used as drug paraphernalia would be illegal. Many US citizens that have their roots from the Middle East still use a hookah for smoking tobacco. Uttering the statement "please don't use a hookah for smoking marijuana" could land them in prison.
Hatch and Feinstein are both evil control freaks. To me to proves the system is broken with both the Democrats and Republicans. They both suck.
Also see: Wired News: Reefer Madness Hits Congress
If we did a RMA-retail-style model with our customers they'd leave us in a heartbeat.
While this model works for us on the wholesale end I don't see it in use anywhere on the retail, mail order side. We use to do a little retail but dumped it because it just wasn't worth it.
BTW, the memory game is tough. We check our supply prices and currency exchange rates a few times a day. With such thin margins one mistake can easily cost you a week's worth of profit. Between a very low defect rate of memory sticks and razor thin profit margins no one in the business would be a bit surprised that some manufacturers skip testing.
2. Fire needs to come out the exhaust fan port.
Not bad for meatbags though. =)
That sucks big time. When I upgraded our offices from Win98 to WinXP Pro* one of the big selling points was that we didn't need to buy TS CALs (at $150USD per seat). It was much cheaper to get XP Pro than XP Home and TS CALs. Most of our machines needed access to TS to access an accounting program at the head office. Also many of the users liked easy of use and speed of remote access to their work machines. TS one of the few things that have come out of Redmond that I've liked.
Needless to say I won't be upgrading to Win 2003 Server anytime soon.
I've been faced with either:
Going to Win 2003 Server and keeping the current accounting software system (which cost $20k upfront and $2k per year in maintance). Most people in the offices would prefer this option since it's the one they're use to.
GNU/Linux everywhere (both thin and thick as needed) and a web based accounting program our accountant has been pushing (for about $4k per year). Since it's a new interface many users have resisted a possible change.
While the latter had a marginal lead this news makes our choice a little easier. We're tired of MS "nickle and diming" us every chance they get. My boss has no problem paying for software, he's just sick of paying and paying and paying. What happens when MS changes the rules again and maybe says that you need to buy a new TS CAL every year? IMO many anti-MS people wouldn't hate them so much if they weren't so greedy.
There's a reason Bill Gates is the richest man in the world ...
* Not by my choice but if the boss says you're a MS shop then you either play the game or leave.
While there are a number of different clustering tools for MS Windows IFAIK MS doesn't have a standardized version distributed with XP. The parent posting is right in pointing this out.
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Bexley had the same thing 20 years ago and that one was controlled with your mind! Man, I miss their parties. Sorry, what were we talking about?
For those that don't remember (from Nmap 3.50 Press Release - 2004-02-20):
Shut out from the US and stuck in Canada? I fail to see the downside here. I mean between the high quality beer and weed plus "Hockey Night in Canada" and "The Nature of Things" I'm thinking about retiring there. =)
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As a rule on such jobs I always required a staff member with me at all times and required that my bags (computer, scanner, etc) be inspected at the entrance and the exit. True CYA. The first day I went to inspect the collection it was clear it had been "groomed". Telltall dust lines in drawers that should not have had been openned in years lead to the possiblity many books were missing. I quickly told them I had no interest in stepping into their mess and advised them to call the Boston PD right way.
My guess was someone was grabbing what look valuable and didn't know how to cover their tracks. It was also likely that person was still there.
The sad thing was there were a number of books I would've looked to have copies of, but it never happened.
Atleast some places, like the BLP, has very good security of the rare books. Once you get known as a researcher their they were pretty cool. Still strick, but still cool. Of course this was before the BPL was gutted. I fear in ten years it will a Starbuck's and Border's.
Nice to see that Canada once again has decided not be the US' bitch.